The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...

The College of Cardinals, clad in their red cassocks, solemnly processed towards the Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo’s awe ...

It’s pretty cool.” The next gallery has walls of deep red and is devoted to drawings for Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” which was painted nearly 30 years after the ceiling on the ...

Read the essay The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment” frescoes transcend reason and defy human capability.

The cardinals hold their election in the Sistine Chapel, under Michelangelo’s frescoes of the Last Judgment and of Bible scenes, including the creation panel with the fingers of God and Adam ...

Cardinals cast their votes in a secret ballot. Moving under the much-revered Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgment, the cardinals drop a twice-folded ballot in a large chalice. Up to four ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

We visited the Sistine Chapel and stood beneath Michelangelo’s images of Creation and the Last Judgment, where cardinals have gathered to choose the next Pope since 1846. Bill Tinsley has served as ...

The cardinals assemble in the Sistine Chapel where they sit in silence with Michelangelo’s The Last Judgement surrounding them. After the cardinals swear oaths to observe the rules and maintain ...

The cardinals may take some inspiration from the frescos and artwork of Michelangelo inside the Sistine Chapel. Above the altar is the imposing Last Judgement with trumpeting angels on clouds ...